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Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox, reloaded
Firefox and Yahoo! fans take note. Mozilla.org released Firefox 1.5 last November and is gaining converts faster than ever. The Yahoo! Firefox Toolbar 1.0 worked well with Firefox 1.5, and since that release launched, we�ve been working hard to fix a few things and add some Yahoo! features to the menu. You�ll see them when you click your right mouse button.
No matter where you are on the Web, with that mouse click you can:
- Search for information using Yahoo! Search
- Share information via Email, Messenger, and 360�
- Save what you�re seeing to My Web or Yahoo! Bookmarks
- And more
Download Yahoo! Toolbar 1.1 for Mozilla Firefox, take it for a spin, and tell us what you think.
Jon Granrose
Product Manager, Yahoo! Toolbar
P.S. - If you haven�t already tried it, take a look at the del.icio.us Firefox extension that lets you manage your del.icio.us account from anywhere on the web.


Comments
One other quick (and cool) note. The 1.1 Toolbar adds a context submenu, so even if you don't need/want another full toolbar/search box, you can install it, hide it from the active display and still get a bunch of on-demand Y! goodness.
Very cool guys!
Posted by: jr | February 9, 2006 02:12 PM
The search functionality still opens the results in a new page unlike the IE toolbar. When are FF users going to get the same search same page pop-up ?
Posted by: Sputin | February 10, 2006 06:55 PM
Argh. I installed Yahoo toolbar on Firefox (osX) and now it has taken over my browser, a bit. You know when you leave off the "http://", and the "www", and the ".com" when you're typing in the address field? So, if you want to go to apple.com, you just type apple. Well, now, it does a yahoo keyword search. This would be fine if it didn't happen *after" unistalling the toolbar! How do I get rid of that function?
Posted by: Anonymous | February 12, 2006 04:51 PM
Sounds like previous commentor was using "I'm Feeling Lucky". Try this to make Firefox do what it used to do:
1) Open a new browser window and type "about:config" in the address bar
2) Type "keyword" into the "Filter" field
3) Double-click on the "keyword.URL" line to open a dialog box to change the setting
4) Copy "http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=" and paste it into the dialog
5) Click OK
Posted by: Duke | February 13, 2006 02:55 AM
The icons candy keeps getting improving.
Posted by: John Hood | February 15, 2006 05:20 PM
Does Yahoo plan to make something like Custom Buttons of Google Toolbar? This is very handy feature - for example now I can access to Yahoo search from Google Toolbar :-), see http://www.irnis.net/soft/gtbb/
Posted by: irnis | February 19, 2006 12:43 AM
Oh I like the toolbar very much!
I prefer it instead of Googles.
Of course I already have the newest version.
Download it. Its good! :)
Have Fun @ all!
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My Creation ;)
http://www.easy-smsversand.de/simyo.html
Posted by: Markus | March 22, 2006 03:29 PM
I have a yahoo home page.
I'm not a fan of toolbars and I want to keep mine from coming back. I thought one I deleted and then chose to "Lock Toolbar," it wouldn't appear again. BUT IT KEEPS COMING BACK!
How do I get rid of it permanently?
Posted by: JACK | March 27, 2006 04:27 AM
To remove the IE version, use the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
To remove the Firefox version, use the Extension Manager under the "Tools" menu in Firefox.
Posted by: Jon | April 4, 2006 08:46 AM
The firefox is the best. I think everybody agrees to that.
But i cant decide wether the yahoo or google toolbar is better. Sometimes im not too happy with the search results of both searchengines, so i cant decide.
What do you prefer?
Bye!
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My Site, at the moment:
http://www.easy-smsversand.de/yellowstrom.html
Posted by: Yellow Strom | April 8, 2006 04:55 AM
I want to get rid of the yahoo tollbar since its already there in the menu. Can any one of you tell me how to do that. Emal me st rohan.pinto@gmail .com cause i doubt i'll check this blog again.
Posted by: Rohan Pinto | April 9, 2007 10:44 AM